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Make wouldnt be the first build tool i would try. I would go with something like gradle first. Eventhough, in Mike's case make looks like a good match for his r

• fidotron 13y ago
  Gradle looks to me like it's full of good intentions, of exactly the sort that in a few years will have led them straight to hell, at which point someone will reinvent ant or make with different syntax and we'll be back where we started. I worked on a proprietary build system remarkably similar to gradle for many years. The cleverer a build system tries to be the more likely it will become a self sustaining beast that consumes ever more of your time and destroys productivity. They look great with relatively simple systems, but a few years into production with multiple deployment target configurations and you will want to murder people. Build systems should be stupid, simple, and trivially predictable.
  • twic 13y ago
    It's been going for five years so far, and has yet to get noticeably near the infernal realms. I know Gradle fairly well, and i wouldn't describe it as particularly clever. The basic ideas in it are quite simple (and actually fairly similar to make!). Most of the complexity comes from specific build tasks for specific purposes, which doesn't complicate the core.
  • je42 13y ago
    The key idea of gradle is to have a rule based system that does not exclude full scripting. Compared to gradle i dont know any other buildsystem that bridges these extrems well.